Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] net: socket: implement SO_DESCRIPTION

From: Pascal Bouchareine
Date: Sat Aug 22 2020 - 16:53:24 EST


On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 1:19 PM Pascal Bouchareine <kalou@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:59 PM Pascal Bouchareine <kalou@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Would it make sense to also make UDIAG_SHOW_NAME use sk_description?
> > (And keep the existing change - setsockopt + show_fd_info via
> > /proc/.../fdinfo/..)
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> Ah,very wrong example - to be more precise, I suppose that'd be adding
> a couple idiag_ext for sk_description and pid if possible instead

About the pid part -
On top of multiple pids to scan for a given socket, there's also the
security provided by /proc - I'm not sure what inet_diag does for that
So maybe users calling it will need to scan /proc for a long time anyway...

Or is that doable?